No, I don’t mean in my personal life, my wife takes care of that.
I decided I wanted to add some scenic ‘accents’ to my layout in the form of certain specific structural elements including: metal look truss bridges, tunnels (portals), stone walls, and a station platform.
So I Google searched and came across’ Rail Serve’, which serves as a sort of master site.
Searching for bridges wasn’t too bad, with three seemingly suitable hits [Eaglewings, HundredYearbridge, Hobbylinc(Modelpower)]. This also turned up Scenic Express for tunnel portals and stone walls.
When I started searching through Rail Serve’s listings for structures, it became a big project!! Structures seem to be made by a very large number of small cottage industry companies (or individuals posing as companies). It tood me 1 1/2 hours just to get through the a,b and c of the alpha listing.
Are there a few major players which may satisfy my rather simple needs?
Particularly, at this moment I am looking for a station platform, which I can place close to a stone wall, which is 18 to 24 inches in length. It may have, but does not need to have, a roof.
I have other structural concepts forming in my head. Recommendations as to where to look are appreciated.
My vision is mid-atlantic to mid-west based, sort of post 1920s to 1960s (possibly later - that’s unresolved).
I’m not certain I fully understand if you are looking for a station or a platform, or both, but if it is a platform you seek, these are made by Atlas. When I bought these three or four years ago, they were incredibly cheap - $15.00 or so dollars for two platforms.
I customized mine to include lights, and you can butt them against each other to make one long platform.
Runtime: Can you provide a little more about what you’re looking for?
Price range, realism (wood craftsman kits), Lionel, MTH, and Bachman (Plasticville) make nice buildings, that can be made to look realistic with some work.
I am adding an L shaped addition around the outside of one corner of my single track main loop.
As some of you may know, my layout is on the floor of my parlor. The L addition provides three sidings, at least one of which will be a ‘pass through’. [The legs of the L are 68 x 48 and about 20 deep] There is furniture in this area which needs to be raised up . So I am planning an elevated platform (5 1/2 to 6 1/2 inches high) over part of these new tracks. Under this platform I am visualizing a station (perhaps more accurately described as a platform?), backed by a stone or concrete wall, with additional tunnel portals for the other tracks passing under this structure.
It is an experiment… my first foray into scenics. I can visualize additional scenic ‘accents’ at various locations on my layout. As I’ve been thinking about this, I’ve concluded these element should be mostly urban in nature. My observational experiences have been along the mid atlantic corridor, mostly form Philadelphia through NYC to Connecticut. So I will be trying to capture mostly bits and pieces of what could be reasonably found in such environments.
reason I was asking with about 30+ years ago i build one from scratch using balsa wood. I got 3 pieces of 3"w x 30"Lx1/16" thick some 1/4"x1/4"x30" to use for post going up across and to suport roof and a piece about 5/8"x5/8" x 30" to cut in to 1" pieces to make legs laying flat so 1" long and one of the big pieces for the floor and the other 2 I believe trimmed to 2 1/4" wide to make the 2 sides of the roof. it was my first piece of scatch building and it came out fair and today if I would redo it I would find some plastic to use as drain pipes and add some lights which it didn’t have I gues sI would use led lights today as I don’t remember them back then but sure might of been there but I didn’t light it up anyway.
